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| invented the Spinning Jenny |
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| patented the steam engine |
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| Created a better process for making steel |
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| Developed smallpox vaccination |
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| invented a seed drill and a horse-drawn hoe |
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| invented a way to drive the Spinning Jenny by waterpower |
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| was the first to build a profitable steam boat |
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| used a conveyor belt to carry automobile frames from one worker to the next |
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| Founded the United States Steel Company(USSC), one of the first of the many billion-dollar corporations |
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| expressed his views in his book,"Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations" |
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| an Angelican clergyman who became a profesor of economics, in his book, " An Essay on the Prinicple of Population", published in 1798, Malthus wrote that population increases present the greatest obstacle to human progress |
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| a british economist, wrote that working-class poverty is inevitable, in his book "principles of political economy and taxation", published in 1817, ricardo stated that supply and demand determine wages |
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| used his novels to attack greedy employers, in his one of many novels, "david Copperfield" |
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| put forth theory of Utilitarianism, argued that law was useful, and therefore good, if it led to "the greatest happiness of the greatest number" of people. believed that people should be educated so that they could decide what things were good for them or would make them happy. he called for the reform of the nations justice and prison system. |
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| english philosopher, also believed that a government should work for the good of all its citizens, rejected economic systems that left workers trapped in poverty, Mill called for government to protect working children and to improve housing and factory conditions, Mill argued for full democracy and for equality for all men and women regardless of their social class or economic power. in 1869 he wrote On The Subjection Of Women, a ground-breaking call for support of women's rights. |
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| Great Britain's most influential utopian socialist. lived from 1771 to 1858. quit school at age 10 and went to work. by 19, he managed a large cotton mill and later purchased a spinning mill. in 1814 Owen entered a partnership with Jeremy Bentham. Owen believed that people who lived in a good environment would stop acting selfishly. Owen also believed that workers should not be dependent on their employers. he ecouraged them to form unions. he proposed the formation of "villages of cooperation" in which the unemployed would be self-supporting instead of relying on aid. |
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| german, believed that utopian socialism was impractical, and said that the entire capitialist system should be destroyed. Marx believed that all great changes in history had come from changes in economic conditions. Marx summed up his point of veiw of human history in one sentence, "The history of all hitherto existing society in the history of class stuggles. |
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